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RE: darwin threads on boehm-gc was Re: Status page
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- To: "'Andreas Tobler'" <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>, "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Cc: "'Andrew Haley'" <aph at redhat dot com>, Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:49:32 -0800
- Subject: RE: darwin threads on boehm-gc was Re: Status page
That's definitely the right plan. Jeff has been trying to get that to work (http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/gc/2003-February/000032.html), but encountered some unexpected pthreads behavior.
Hans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Tobler [mailto:toa@pop.agri.ch]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:53 AM
> To: Boehm, Hans
> Cc: 'Andrew Haley'; Jeff Sturm; java@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: darwin threads on boehm-gc was Re: Status page
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> Boehm, Hans wrote:
> > It looks like gcj is built with thread support, but the gc
> is built without.
> >
> > I forgot about this particular failure mode. Basically
> it's crashing because the allocator finds itself running on a
> different stack from the one it's expecting. It's not
> surprising that that would happen in this configuration.
> >
> > This build looks extremely unhealthy, in spite of the mixed
> test results. The tests pass only because they're mostly
> single-threaded and don't garbage-collect.
>
> Ok, then the result should be, as read on gc-mail list, give OSX the
> thread support?
> We could at least say from 10.2.3 up ?
>
> Andreas
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